UNWRITTEN LAW IN CANADA.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XL, Issue 12538, 8 May 1915, Page 2

UNWRITTEN LAW IN CANADA.

Carrie Da vies, the 18-yeaV-oM English servant who shot and killed her employer, Mr C. A. Massey. on the threshold of bis residence a: Toronto, has been acquitted on the charm- ,J| murder, and has been released. Till- defence was that she dreaded further advances. Mr Chaik-.s A. Massey 'whs connected with the mx-at firm of agricultural implement makers, the Massey-Harris Company. Mrs Massey had been away fcr some days on a visit to friends at Hartford, Conneclient. When Mr Massey returned to his home. 169, Wa liner Road, he was met at the door bv Carrie Davies,' who confronted him with a revolver in her hand. She immediatelv fired at Mr Massey, hut the first shot missed. The second, however, penetrated Mr Massey's heart. Staggering down the steps be got to the adjoining residence, where he expired almost immediatelv. 'i The police searched the Massey _ residence, and when the servant, Carrie Da-.vk-'s, 'was called from the top storey she met' them on the'stairway. She handed over the .revolver at once, and staled that she had killed .Mr Massey owing to advances sbe alk.icd lie had made to her. The police found the 14-year-old .son of Mr Massey playing" in the basement of the residence", unconscious that bis father ad been murdered.